There I'll study so that they can't hold me back! How many horses do you have?"
"Three. What do you need to study so much for?" asked Foma. "Because I am poor. The poor must study hard so that they may become rich. They become doctors, functionaries, officers. I shall be a 'tinkler.' A sword at my side, spur on my boots. Cling, cling!英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》
After traveling eastward a few minutes he lost sight of the city altogether; so, still clinging to the body of the Turk, he again turned the indicator and began to descend. When, at last, they landed gently upon a rocky eminence of the Kuen-Lun mountains, the boy's strength was almost exhausted, and his limbs ached with the strain of clinging to the Turk's body.英文原著 · 《The Master Key》
Above him, at the angle of the steep green bank of the terraced garden, was one of those small picturesque surprises common in the old landscape gardening; a kind of small round hill or dome of grass, like a giant mole-hill, ringed and crowned with three concentric fences of roses, and having a sundial in the highest point in the centre. Kidd could see the finger of the dial stand up dark against the sky like the dorsal fin of a shark and the vain moonlight clinging to that idle clock. But he saw something else clinging to it also, for one wild moment--the figure of a man.英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
" Then," she said, with great dignity, "if you had been a gentleman and a man of honor, you would have cried, 'Unhand me, girl! You are clinging to me under a misunderstanding!'"英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
However, out of caution, I walked round the house, as if taking a stroll. Passing Princess Mary's windows, I again heard steps behind me; a man wrapped in a cloak ran by me. That rendered me uneasy, but I crept up to the flight of steps, and hastily mounted the dark staircase. A door opened, and a little hand seized mine. "Nobody has seen you?" said Vera in a whisper, clinging to me. "Nobody."
"Now do you believe that I love you? I have long hesitated, long tortured myself. But you can do anything you like with me."
Her heart was beating violently, her hands were cold as ice.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Grushnitski went in front, his seconds behind him, and then the doctor and I. "I am surprised at you," said the doctor, pressing my hand vigorously. "Let me feel your pulse! Feverish! But nothing noticeable on your countenance . only your eyes are gleaming more brightly than usual."
Suddenly small stones rolled noisily right under our feet. What was it? Grushnitski had stumbled; the branch to which he was clinging had broken off, and he would have rolled down on his back if his seconds had not held him up.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Tell me now, or so help me God, I will make it my mission in life to not only destroy your careers, but to obliterate all hope and happiness that you manage to cling to.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
But, um, when-when you and I skated together, you weren't the mean older sister and I wasn't the clingy little brother.美剧 · 《Modern Family》